Quotes About Control

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.